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VW. ROEMER. Attachment for Traveling Bags. No. 242,793.. 4

Patented .|une.14,'l88vll.

Inventar UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ROEMER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

ATTACHMENT FOR TRAVELING-BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,793, dated June 14,1881.

Application filed April 23, ISSI.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM ROEMEE, ofNewark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented anImproved Strap- G'uide Attachmentfor Traveling-Bags,of which thefollowing1 is a specification.

Figure l is a side view of a bag having my strap-guide attachment. Fig.2 is atop view of the attach ment 5 Fig. 3, a bottom View thereof 5Fig. 4, a vertical longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 5 avertical cross-section of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide for the straps that arepassed around travelingbags at the right and left of the lock a loop andholding device that will keep the strap in place on the frame of thebag, and that will also hold the buckle at such a place as will make iteasily accessible at all times.

Heretofore such strapshave been put around the bags through plain loopsthatwere attachedat the sides of the bags, and in these loops the strapswere guided and liable to slip, carrying the buckles sometimes to thefront, sometimes to the back, of. the bags.

My invention consists in attaching a loop which has a perforated top anda perforated side to the frame of the bag, and in passing the strapthrough the two perforations of said loop, all as hereinafter more fullydescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA represents my improved loop.The same is made of metal or other suitable material, andis, by suitablescrews or otherwise, attached to the frame of the travelingbag. The loophas a longitudinal slot or opening, a, in its top, and asimilar opening,b, in that one of its side walls through which the strap is to bepassed.

It' desired, both of the side walls of the loop may have perforations b,as shown in Fig. 3; but in most cases one such perforation will beenough, as it is desirable to so insert the strap (No model.)

that the buckle end will, as in Fig. 5, extend beyond the upper jaw ofthe bag toward the side from which the lower jaw enters into the upperjaw, as shown.

The strap, as appears clearly from Fig. 5, is passed rst through theopening a., and then through the opening Z1, and then around the bag, soas to hold the buckle part of the strap near to the loop A. By thismeans the strap is guided without the necessity of using the ordinaryloops at the side and lower part ot' the bag. The doubly-slotted loophas a binding effect upon the strap, and the buckle will thereforealways be at the top of the bag, allowing the strap to be readilyunbuckled and buckled.

The loop A may be made with a hook-sh aped extension, as shown at d.,for holding therein the swivel-catch that is usually employed forholding the jaws of the bags together; but this hook-shaped extensionisnot necessarily united with the strap-loop which I have described.

It the loop Ais made with but one opening,

b, in one side, and not with two such openings,

as shown, it must be attached to the frame of the bag in such mannerthat the said opening b will face the outer side of the frame, to whichthe loop is attached. A

l. The strap-loop A, made with the opening a in the top, and with theopening bin the side, for attachment to a traveling-bag and receptionot'a strap that is passed through both said openings a and b,substantially as described.

2. The loopA, having upper opening, a, and side opening, b, andhook-shaped extension d, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ, H. W. TUEX.

